The HDTD-8300 is designed to permanently remove all data and formatting from today's hard drives and data tapes. Stored energy is quickly released to produce short, focused erasing fields that penetrate through the hard drive housing, changing the magnetic properties contained on the data disk platters. The HDTD-8300 has a larger energy bank allowing the HDTD-8300 to erase physically larger and higher coercivity hard drives, a necessity in the ever changing data storage environment.

Because the HDTD-8300's erasing field is many times stronger than the writing and erasing heads inside the hard drive, the HDTD-8300 will provide superior erasure over re-write programs that rely on the hard drive's internal write heads.
The HDTD-8300 will automatically erase half-height and current low profile hard drives in all formats including: SCSI and IDE in addition to DLT, SDLT, 8mm, AIT, diskettes and other formats of magnetic media. The HDTD-8200 doesn't rely on software, therefore it will erase all operating systems. In addition, degaussing is the only way of erasing hard drives that are not functioning.

New security and privacy mandates require complete erasure of media containing customer and employee information before media is re-used or disposed of. Degaussing is the most reliable and quickest way of meeting these requirements.